Suze -
I feed Innova but recently, Kathy Mines who handles my Labradors,
sent my bitch home for a month between shows with a couple cases of Red
Barn dog food. I fed it to everybody, cavaliers included, and they loved it.
Here's the reason I don't use it. When you start a roll, it is
soft enough to slice easily and to break up but then you have to
refrigerate it and it gets as hard as a rock and it is very hard for me,
anyway, to slice. If I had enough dogs to use a whole roll at one sitting,
I'd use it since the handler thinks it's so good and the dogs are all so
fond of it.
Frankly, I used Iams for years and was very happy with the
results. An Australian shepherd breeder told me Innova was better so I
switched. I asked my vet and he agreed Innova was better than Iams. With
all the changes, I have not noticed any difference at all. I give each dog
a pet tab daily and a couple brewers yeast and garlic tablets, I make sure
they get lots of exercise or at least as much as they want, and I keep them
clean and well groomed. They always seem to be in tip top condition
regardless of the diet which leads me to believe that as long as you feed
one of the higher quality diets, it really doesn't make a lot of difference
which one it is unless of course you have a dog with a sensitive digestive
system and you have to find something the dog can and will eat.
From a purely mechanical viewpoint, soft foods like Red Barn
cannot possibly be as good for the teeth as chewing on a harder dry food
but it is tasty apparently and nourishing. What has been your experience
with it?
Julie
At 06:07 PM 9/25/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi List,
> Has anyone tried Red Barn food? If so, can you let me know what you
>thought of it? It is extremely expensive, but it DOES look like what I
>do in cooking for my dogs. Time being money and all
>that.............but would like to hear from others who may have tried
>it.
>
>Suze
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